Weird Al Yankovic’s Five Most Hauntingly Bizarre Videos

​If you were a kid in the 1980s, Weird Al Yankovic was the funniest guy ever. “Fat” would come on as you snarfed cookies and soda, leaving a burning in your nose. To watch his knockoff of Michael Jackson’s hit “Bad” in 2011 isn’t the same exactly. But it’s still…

Surfer Blood Plays Free Miami Show for DWNTWN Concert Series October 14

​Surfer Blood is, like, superfamous. The West Palm foursome has been almost singlehandedly spreading South Florida’s indie rock message, playing every music festival imaginable, including SXSW, CMJ, and even ATP’s Nightmare Before Christmas. In fact, this crew may be the hottest white-boy thang to come out of SoFla since Vanilla…

Blowfly’s Weird and Wonderful Night at The Vagabond, September 30

​Blowfly The Vagabond Friday, September 30, 2011 Better Than: A hot fudge sundae. Even at 72 years old, Blowfly still has all the humor, presence, and charm of a school boy, which he sweetly displayed last night at The Vagabond. This weekend, Miami is celebrating one of its favorite potty-mouthed…

Chris Brown and Ten Other Famous Wife-Beaters

​In 2009, a teenaged Chris Brown was arrested for beating the crap out of his then-girlfriend, Rihanna. It was an ugly scene and everyone will always remember him as one of the most famous wife-beaters of all time. Certainly, though, Brown is not the only male musician with anger management…

X Factor: Ten Most Annoying Moments from Last Night’s Episode

It was a huge challenge to narrow down the hundreds of annoying things about last night’s X Factor to a nice, tight ten. But we did it! The auditions continued in Chicago and Seattle. We sat through two hours of clips of people with a small amount of talent competing…

Rabid Musical Bromance Thrives Between Animal Tropical and Ice Cream

According to totally reliable online resource Wikipedia, a bromance is “a close but non-sexual relationship between two (or more) men, a form of homosocial intimacy.” Musical history is sprinkled with fruitful and creative bromances. There was David Bowie and Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Gram Parsons… and that’s just half…

Wood Tavern is Coming with Cocktails and Coldplay

​Wood Tavern (2531 NW Second Ave., Miami) may have a suggestive name, but there’s no tongue in cheek joke hidden in there. The newest watering hole set to open mid-October in Wynwood takes its name from the part of town in which it sits. Though owner Cesar Morales didn’t love…

Overtown Music Project’s Eight Sounds of Overtown

Overtown once rocked with the sounds and soul of musicians such as Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie. A hotbed of music and culture, Overtown’s heyday has passed, but not entirely. This neighborhood just northwest of downtown Miami is being revitalized, with help from Amy Rosenberg and the Overtown…

Blowfly’s 69 Most Pornographic Love Songs

​Clarence Reid sings “Nobody But You Babe.” But Blowfly belts out “Nobody’s Butt But Yours, Babe.” Different names, dissimilar topics, same wacky dude. Our man Blowfly’s been taking songs sung at bar mitvahs and filthying them up since he was just a young guy in Georgia. He claims he first…

Yuck Bringing the Teen Angst to Bardot on October 8

​The actual demise and cosmic destruction of Langerado Music Festival rained upon South Florida clubs with a thousand little shiny nuggets of musical opportunity. Thus, Bardot landed London indie group Yuck, a five-piece band consisting of boys and girls who conjure throwback ’90s rock with a heavy edge and low-fi…

Don’t Miss Meat’s Smoking Weed With Jesus Release Party Tonight!

Roy Neil Hunter looks like he’s 17. But that’s OK, since the main mastermind behind the band Meat is merely a fresh, young 24. This musician has played in other Miami bands with mouth-watering names like Strawberry Dirt, Sparkling Purple Mango, and Ice Cream. We’re honestly starting to think these…